Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a community support provider and nurse in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failings in their care of a woman with .
Monday, 24 May 2021, 2:14 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding a radiologist in breach of the
Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights
(the Code) for their failure to identify information in a
scan.
The man, aged in his eighties, had a CT scan at
a public hospital to investigate abdominal pain and
diarrhoea he was experiencing.
The scan showed he had
free gas in his abdominal cavity which indicated a bowel
perforation. However, the radiologist missed this in the
scan report and the man was discharged from hospital. Sadly,
a few days later he died as a result of septic shock due to
Monday, 24 May 2021, 2:10 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today
released a report finding a rest home in breach of the Code
of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the
Code) after a woman suffered serious injuries in their care
in 2018.
The woman, who had an intellectual disability
and limited communication skills, was a resident at Radius
Elloughton Gardens in Timaru which is operated by Radius
Residential Care Limited (Radius).
Sometime during the
night or the next morning, the woman suffered a right
shoulder dislocation and fractures on the two bones of her
lower left leg. These injuries were most likely the result